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AI transcription turning audio/video into searchable text, with speaker ID, AI summaries and a chat-with-your-transcript feature.
Audio/video transcription tool offering multilingual transcription, translation, subtitles, and toxicity flagging in 130+ languages.
Free-forward AI transcription and subtitling tool for audio, video, and podcasts in over 100 languages.
Mac transcription app offering local or cloud AI models, speaker ID, translation, and multi-format export for recordings.
Pay-per-hour speech-to-text API claiming top accuracy at lower cost than Deepgram, AssemblyAI, and other major transcription providers.
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Free trial available
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Free trial available
Free trial available
- ✦Audio and video transcription
- ✦Full-text search across transcripts
- ✦AI summaries and chat over content
- ✦Speaker identification
- ✦Export to TXT, SRT, VTT
- ✦18-language support
- ✦Transcribes audio/video files or YouTube URLs in 130+ languages
- ✦Automatic detection of multiple languages within a single recording
- ✦Speaker-wise segmented transcripts for multi-person recordings
- ✦Translation of transcripts between supported languages
- ✦SRT/VTT subtitle generation and PDF export
- ✦Real-time toxicity/inappropriate-content detection
- ✦Custom plans with multi-user collaboration and white-label options
- ✦AI transcription of audio, video, and live speech
- ✦Translation into 100+ languages and dialects
- ✦Automatic subtitle file creation
- ✦AI-generated summaries of transcribed content
- ✦Speaker recognition and timestamps for podcasts
- ✦Cross-platform support including Mac, Windows, and mobile
- ✦Drag-and-drop transcription with no account required
- ✦Choice of local or cloud AI transcription engines
- ✦Local AI summarization powered by Llama
- ✦Translation into 20+ languages
- ✦Speaker identification/diarization
- ✦Support for video and audio formats including MP4, MOV, MP3, WAV
- ✦Export to TXT, SRT, VTT, Markdown, CSV, or PDF
- ✦Pay-per-hour transcription pricing, no flat subscription
- ✦Benchmark accuracy comparisons against major competitors
- ✦Support for 8 languages with English translation
- ✦Speaker identification and time-coded SRT output
- ✦Two speed/accuracy tiers (standard and Lite)
- →Meeting and interview notes
- →Podcast transcripts
- →Lecture and academic transcription
- →Reviewing recorded calls
- →Podcasters or webinar hosts needing quick transcripts and subtitles
- →Businesses translating video content into multiple languages
- →Researchers transcribing multi-speaker interviews
- →Teams needing content moderation flags on recorded media
- →Transcribing podcast episodes for accessibility and SEO
- →Converting business meeting recordings into text records
- →Generating subtitles for video content
- →Transcribing lecture recordings or voice memos for students
- →Transcribing podcasts or interviews with speaker labels
- →Creating video subtitles from recordings
- →Summarizing long meeting recordings privately on-device
- →Teams running high-volume batch audio transcription on a budget
- →Developers wanting a lower-cost, benchmarked alternative to Deepgram/AssemblyAI/Azure
- →Workloads needing faster, lower-accuracy transcription via the Lite tier